Ralph Guenther, Partner (joined 2011, 22 years of private markets experience) Ralph is a Partner and represents Pantheon’s client relationship management and business development for the DACH and CEE markets and will also source deals for Pantheon’s Secondaries team. Ralph is responsible for Pantheon’s distribution relationship in Germany and Austria. Prior to Pantheon, Ralph served as a Managing Director with bmp AG in Germany, where he established a fund of funds business in 2005. Prior to that he served as a MD in the German Venture Capital markets from 1998 to 2005 where he was responsible for a number of investments, trade sales and IPOs. Ralph started his career in IT consulting and software development. He has a degree in economics from FU Berlin. Ralph is based in Berlin.

Simon joined Octopus Ventures in 2012 and sits within the Deep Tech team, focusing on AI and machine learning, advanced materials, semiconductors and Quantum Computing. He sits on the boards of several portfolio companies including Phoelex, Orbex, Dogtooth Technologies and Elvie and previously sat on the board at WaveOptics (acquired by Snap). He also looks after the origination strategy at Octopus Ventures. Simon’s academic background is in Physics, Chemistry and Materials culminating in a PhD in organic electronics from Imperial College London. When not at work, Simon is a father of three boys (and being one of three boys, he knows how bad things are going to get!); in his minimal spare time he enjoys playing piano and guitar, learning new things (currently Mandarin) and being outdoors.

Mr. van Eesteren is a member of WPM’s Management Committee and Board Member of Wilshire Associates Incorporated. He serves on WPM’s global Investment Committee and is co-responsible for the private markets activities in Europe. He has 23 years of investment experience. Prior to joining WPM in 2001, he worked in investment banking, most recently as Vice President with ING Barings. Mr. van Eesteren was also previously with NationsBank and Bank of America in London. Mr. van Eesteren received an MSc degree in Business Administration from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Hejoined Wilshire in 2001.

Bertie is a managing director in Corporate Broking and Equity Capital Markets in the UK and EMEA IBD head of ESG. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2017. Prior to joining the firm, Bertie was a managing director at Barclays, where he worked for nearly eight years in the Corporate Broking department of the Investment Banking Division. Before that, he worked for two years at Citi and began his career in Corporate Broking at Hoare Govett in 1999. Bertie earned a BA in Financial and Business Economics from the University of Newcastle in 1999.

Mina Pacheco Nazemi is a Co-Head of the Funds & Co-Investments team and serves on both the investment committee and valuation committee. She is also responsible for originating, underwriting and monitoring primary fund, direct/co-investments, and secondary fund opportunities for private equity and real assets. Mina has worked in the industry since 1998 with experience as a General Partner and Limited Partner investor in private markets and focused on underwriting direct/co-investment opportunities. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Mina held several leadership and investment positions including Co-Founder and Partner at Aldea Capital Partners and Partner and Investment Committee Member at GCM Grosvenor Customized Fund Investment Group (formerly Credit Suisse CFIG). She is an alumna of Sponsors for Education Opportunity (SEO) and Robert Toigo Foundation. She also is a board member of the Pan American Development Fund and serves on the investment committee for the City of Hope. Additionally, Mina is a current Finance Fellow for The Aspen Institute. Mina holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Alex is an Associate in StepStone’s European Private Equity team and is responsible for investments into funds, secondaries and co-investments. At StepStone, Alex focuses on the UK market and Small and Mid Cap TMT-focused GPs. Prior to joining StepStone, Alex was a TMT Investment Banking Analyst at Canaccord Genuity. Alex received a BSc in Economics – First Class Honours from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mark is a Managing Director and Head of European Primaries. He has over 30 years of experience evaluating, selecting and monitoring private equity fund investments and sits on several private equity fund advisory boards. He has been closely involved in the design and implementation of the British Venture Capital Association’s annual performance measurement survey since the pilot study in the early 1990s. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Birmingham.

Mark Corbidge, Managing Director, joined Sun European in 2019. Mark leads the firm’s European investment strategies from the London office. Mark has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, having transacted in business services, industrials, TMT and consumer across Europe. Prior to joining Sun European, Mark served as a Partner at TPG Capital where he was responsible for the industrials group in Europe. Previously Mr. Corbidge was Senior Principal for Direct Private Equity at CPPIB, and Co-Head of Private Equity at Doughty-Hanson. Mark is a volunteer member of the Finance Committee at The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and has been an active fundraiser for the charity over the past 20 years. Mark speaks French and German fluently as well as intermediate Dutch and Italian. Mark was awarded his Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons) from Middlesex University and from Groupe ESC Reims, France. Mark is a driven dealmaker who enjoys a challenge.

Kate M. Carlson, CFA, is a Managing Director with Franklin Park, where she is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of private equity investment opportunities, client relationship management, and conducting industry research. Prior to joining Franklin Park in 2007, Kate was with GMAC Mortgage and Standard and Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting, formerly a U.S. PricewaterhouseCoopers business. Kate is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. She received a B.S. in Finance with honors from Villanova University.

Jeff Ransdell is a venture capitalist building a portfolio of exponential technology companies at South Florida-based Fuel Venture Capital, which he founded in 2017 following his departure from the world of wealth management. Jeff approaches venture capital with a signature “founder focused, investor driven” mindset, shaped by two decades as a top executive of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. As a managing director and market executive of the financial powerhouse, he managed more than $130 billion of global private client investment assets, a P&L of $2 billion, and over 2,000 employees across the bank’s Southeast Wealth Management Division. His transition to venture capital was motivated by what he saw as mounting evidence that opportunities to shape the economy and capitalize on innovation were steadily shifting from the public markets to the private markets. In the face of much skepticism, Jeff chose Miami, Florida, as the homebase for Fuel Venture Capital, armed with an unparalleled rolodex and emboldened to leverage the city’s untapped resources and advantages. Today, Fuel Venture Capital manages a $200 million fund and has a portfolio of 25 companies, including Terran Orbital, Soundtrack Your Brand and Taxfyle.

Staffan Mörndal is a Partner at Verdane, a Northern European specialist growth investor backing fast-growing, tech-enabled companies supported by the Digital Consumer, Software Everywhere and Sustainable Society megatrends. Originally an entrepreneur, Staffan joined Verdane in 2006 where he has helped build digital consumer companies like Boozt, MatHem and momox into some of Northern Europe’s most successful growth companies, with revenues reaching into the hundreds of millions of euros. At Verdane, Staffan focuses on the digital consumer and software sectors. He has played a key role in setting up and running its 14-strong Berlin-based team of investment professionals and operational experts that support nine Germany-based portfolio companies including momox, asgoodasnew, Hornetsecurity, Searchmetrics and Smava. Verdane is currently investing EUR10-100m+ equity tickets from its EUR540m Edda II and SEK6bn Verdane Capital X funds. Staffan holds an MBA from the University of Linköping, has studied computer programming at the Linköping Institute of Technology, business at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne centre PMF and has completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School located in the United States.

Reinhard Vogt brings a wealth of industry knowledge and technology deal-side expertise to Dynamk Capital. He is instrumental in differentiating Dynamk by providing portfolio companies valuable guidance in all areas of commercialization as well as positioning for exit. Prior to joining Dynamk, he was the Executive VP and Member of the Board of Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A, a leading international partner to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, providing critical solutions for research, development and manufacturing. He was instrumental in building and transforming their filtration business from $30 million in the 90s, to what is now today the Sartorius Bioprocess Business of around $1.2 billion. He served as Executive VP and Member of the Board of Sartorius AG for over 10 years and has served as Director of 15 companies and Sartorius affiliates in his career.

Stephan is a Partner at Ventech (Europe) with close to a decade of Venture Capital experience. Beside working on investments in constantly evolving trend focus areas such as currently: Product Led Growth, Vertical A.I. and API-First driven businesses, he also leading the funds development & integrated processes on data-driven opportunity sourcing for the last 5 years. Ventech is a global, early-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating digital disruption by partnering with daring entrepreneurs from day one through to multibillion-dollar exit. With its dual structure platform, Ventech manages €700m with dedicated funds for Europe, with offices in Paris, Munich, Berlin & Helsinki, and Asia, across locations in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Since its founding in 1998, Ventech has made more than 200 investments and over 90 exits, including 20+ IPOs on the Euronext & NASDAQ exchanges.

Thomas is a Partner at Isomer Capital, a leading investment company in the European VC sector. Being an LP in over 40 VC funds and invested directly in some of the fastest growing companies in Europe, Isomer has developed through the years a successful approach delivering returns and strategic value to investors. Thomas has over 17 years of experience in the asset management industry. He was previously responsible for Russell Investments Southern Europe operations. Fluent in French, Italian and English, Thomas likes to travel and climbing in the Alps.

Marek is a partner, member of the Board of Directors and of the Investment Committee in Jet Investment, a Central European private equity investment company that has been detecting investment opportunities in medium-sized manufacturing companies for more than 20 years. Along with his associates, he has successfully restructured or reorganised over 28 businesses and has been behind the first and largest court reorganisations of manufacturing companies in the Czech Republic. Over the past four years, Jet Investment has accumulated a capital of EUR 280 million for private equity investment through its funds, which are opened only to qualified investors and are subject to Czech National Bank regulation. Marek takes part in managing all the companies in the Jet Fund's portfolio as an active board member, the kernel of his mission is to oversee acquisitions, management of investment projects and their exits. Previously, as a Group CEO and Board Chairman, he was leading the executive management of Kordárna Plus, one of the most successful investment projects of Jet Investment to this day. Marek has been on Jet Investment's team since 2010. He previously worked in Bank Austria Creditanstalt and Deutsche Bank in Prague and London. He is a graduate of Brno University of Technology and Nottingham Trent University.

Véronique Jacq serves as manager of Digital Venture activity at Bpifrance Investissement. She has been an investor in Venture Capital for over 14 years. She initiated the Venture Capital (VC) activity in 2011 with the first generation of “Ambition Numérique” fund, a Series A & B VC fund focused on digital sectors. The scope was extended to Seed stage in 2016 with the launching of “F3A” fund focused on very early stage investments alongside business angels. With €750m under management, the Digital Venture activity backed +90 companies and had +20 exits since 2011 (Wallix, Teads, Balyo, Recommerce, Netatmo, MeilleursAgents, EasyRecrue, Lengow, Neotys, Talentsoft...). Before joining Bpifrance, she held different positions in audit, finance and investment activities (Anvar, French Audit Office, CDC Entreprises). She started her career at the Nuclear Safety Authority. She graduated from Mines ParisTech and Corps des Mines.

Daniel has a background in engineering and a PhD in Chemistry. He enjoys early-stage investing in engineering breakthroughs that help change the world for the better. His main areas of interest are within Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Technology, Deeptech (including space and electronics), and Material Sciences. In his spare time Daniel reads, writes code, and builds electronics. Daniel joined IQ Capital in 2019 and has deep-tech venture capital experience from several funds.

Elliot Bradbrook joined Preqin in 2008 and managed its infrastructure-related research and data activities for 5 years before overseeing the company’s intelligence on the global institutional investor (LP) community from 2016. He now directs Preqin’s research, data operations and strategy for the EMEA region across its suite of alternative asset platforms and data verticals. Preqin initiates, manages and develops relationships with LPs and GPs as well as conducts extensive secondary market research to ensure a flow of quality data and intelligence to over 90k clients worldwide. Elliot holds a first-class honours degree in History and Communications from the University of Akron in Ohio, US.

Mr. Hollender is Co-Head of Private Equity at Flossbach von Storch AG and Managing Director at FvS Alternative Solutions GmbH. He serves on the FvS Private Equity Investment Committee and oversees the Venture Capital and Growth Equity investment activities. He has 20 years of investment experience and sits on several Limited Partners Advisory Committees. Mr. Hollender holds a joint Master´s degree in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology.

Lucanus is the Founder and Managing Partner of Calm/Storm Ventures, a founder network and boutique venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria. Prior to founding his own fund he was a General Partner at Speedinvest where he personally led investments focused on digital health companies including Playbrush, Ourpath, or Diagnosia. Before his time at Speedinvest, Lucanus was managing director of whatchado.com a portfolio company of Hansi Hansmann's "hansmengroup". Lucanus holds Master degrees in Entrepreneurship (WU Vienna) and International Management (CEMS). He is passionate about supporting founders with purpose who try to solve problems that really matter by leveraging his nearly 20 years of experience in business & corporate development. As a passionate sailor and father of 3, you'll find Lucanus spending his spare time with his kids on a boat.

Sebastian Waldburg is responsible for overall operations and investments at Oryx Impact. He is a seasoned impact investor with significant experience in climate finance and venture capital. He has more than 25 years in the financial sector related to energy investments and private equity, with relevant exposure to emerging markets. Experienced team leader and entrepreneur having co-founded SI Capital, one of the pioneer climate finance VCs in Europe Oryx Impact The Oryx Impact Fund seeks investments via African private equity, venture capital and debt funds as well as segregated mandates and direct co-investments into companies with a concrete impact focus on at least one of our three core outcome areas, and that are best positioned to bring about the Fund’s intended financial returns. The outcome areas address the overarching goal of Oryx Impact, which is to reduce existing global inequalities and help alleviate forced migration. They furthermore align closely with multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals. Additional objective of the Oryx Impact Fund is for the ecosystem of fund managers investing in the target regions to improve their ESG practices during the investment period, with a focus on their environmental impact objectives (including carbon footprint and energy efficiency) and their anti-discrimination and governance policies (with a specific focus on gender equality).

Marko Maschek combines engineering education with entrepreneurial acumen. He grew up near Stuttgart and was an employee in the family-owned company during his school days. After his military service, he worked in consulting and software development patenting several developments in automotive applications. Marko has been a VC- / PE- an investor in Germany and the US since 1997 and co-founded Pinova and Marondo. He has been responsible for nearly 30 technology companies where some achieved a successful IPO. Marko earned a degree in electrical engineering from KIT, an advanced degree in computer sciences from INSA (Lyon) and an MBA from Cambridge.

Bill Liao is a Chinese-Australian-Irish entrepreneur, investor, diplomat, business mentor, author, passionate leader and speaker, with a distinguished record in business development and community activism. Co-founder of the CoderDojo movement and of Weforest, his career in tech and business encompasses two unicorn companies and launching the world’s first bio-tech accelerator, RebelBio. He is a general partner of SOSV, a $750m venture capital fund and founder of the upcoming SOSV Momentum Pre-accelerator program.

Maggie looks after client relationships for Bridges’ platform of funds and has been involved with or led the raising of the firm’s eight most recent funds. These have included successive funds in existing strategies as well as the development of new strategies to the Bridges platform. Before her current role in Client & Strategy Development, Maggie spent her first five years as a member of the investment team of the Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds and worked on a number of investments in the sustainable living theme, including the successful exit of Whelan Refining. Prior to joining Bridges, Maggie worked at London-based Climate Change Capital, a specialist merchant bank in the environmental markets. She started her career as a strategy management consultant with McKinsey & Co in New York City. Maggie studied environmental science and public policy at Harvard University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. Maggie currently sits on the BVCA Advisory Group on Impact Investment and on the Working Group on Re-visioning Social Investment as part of the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of sustainable and impact investment and the private markets industry.

Cansu is Senior Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC, where she leads on fundraising for their investment vehicles. Previously, she was with the global accelerator Startupbootcamp, first building their MENA branch in conjunction with a micro-fund in Istanbul, then scaling their industrial IoT program to London and running it. She has been in the tech industry as a founder, operator, and early-stage investor for a decade. Her background is in international politics and human rights law, before going into investment she worked with IGOs and NGOs like Amnesty International, the Council of Europe, and the UN in Turkey and France. Currently based in London, she is an ambassador for the UK Government’s Tier 1 Tech Nation Exceptional Talent scheme.